Working with plugins

Plugins are pieces of code that augment Ansible’s core functionality. Ansible uses a plugin architecture to enable a rich, flexible and expandable feature set.

Ansible ships with a number of handy plugins, and you can easily write your own.

This section covers the various types of plugins that are included with Ansible:

• Action plugins
• Become plugins
• Cache plugins
• Callback plugins
• Cliconf plugins
• Connection plugins
• Docs fragments
• Filter plugins
• Httpapi plugins
• Inventory plugins
• Lookup plugins
• Modules
• Module utilities
• Netconf plugins
• Shell plugins
• Strategy plugins
• Terminal plugins
• Test plugins
• Vars plugins

See also

Rejecting modules

Controlling access to modules

Ansible Configuration Settings

Ansible configuration documentation and settings

Working with command line tools

Ansible tools, description and options

Communication

Got questions? Need help? Want to share your ideas? Visit the Ansible communication guide